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attractive variety to the student's work, and to provide for the advantage
of using verse form in some of the vocal training. The few character
sketches introduced may serve for cultivating facility in giving
entertaining touches to serious discourse. All the selections for platform
practice are designed, as seems most fitting, to occupy about five
minutes in delivery. Original speeches, wherein the student presents his
own thought, may be intermingled with this more technical work in
delivery, or may be taken up in a more special way in a subsequent
course.
It should, perhaps, be suggested that the plan of procedure here
prescribed can be modified to suit the individual teacher or student. The
method of advance explained in the Discussion of Principles is believed
to be the best, but some who use the book may prefer, for example, to
begin with the second group of selections, the familiar, colloquial
passages, and proceed from these to those more elevated and sustained.
This or any other variation from the plan here proposed can, of course,
be adopted. For any plan the variety of material is deemed sufficient,
and the method of grouping will be found convenient and practical.
The making of this kind of book would not be possible except for the
generous privileges granted by many authors and many publishers of
copyrighted works. For the special courtesies of all whose writings
have a place here the editor would make the fullest acknowledgment of
indebtedness. The books from which extracts are taken have been
mentioned, in every case, in a prominent place with the title of the
selection, in order that so far as possible students may be led carefully
to read the entire original, and become fully imbued with its meaning
and spirit, before undertaking the vocal work on the selected portion.
For the purpose of such reading, it would be well to have these books
collected on a section of shelves in school libraries for easy and ready
reference.
The publishers from whose books selections have been most liberally
drawn are, Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Messrs. Lothrop, Lee
and Shepard, Messrs. Little, Brown, and Company, of Boston, and
Messrs. Harper and Brothers, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, Messrs.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, Messrs. G. W. Dillingham Company, Messrs.

Doubleday, Page and Company, and Mr. C. P. Farrell, New York.
Several of the after-dinner speeches are taken from the excellent fifteen
volume collection, "Modern Eloquence," by an arrangement with Geo.
L. Shuman and Company, Chicago, publishers. In the first three
volumes of this collection will be found many other attractive
after-dinner speeches.
I. L. W. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CONTENTS

PREFACE INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
A DISCUSSION OF PRINCIPLES
TECHNICAL TRAINING Establishing the Tone Vocal Flexibility The
Formation of Words Making the Point Indicating Values and Relations
Expressing the Feeling Showing the Picture Expression by Action
PLATFORM PRACTICE The Formal Address The Public Lecture The
Informal Discussion Argumentative Speech The After-Dinner Speech
The Occasional Poem The Making of the Speech
PART TWO
TECHNICAL TRAINING
ESTABLISHING THE TONE O Scotia!.......................... Robert Burns
O Rome! My Country!................ Lord Byron Ring Out, Wild
Bells!.............. Alfred Lord Tennyson Roll On, Thou Deep!................
Lord Byron Thou Too, Sail On!................. _Henry W. Longfellow_ O
Tiber, Father Tiber!............. Lord Macaulay Marullus to the Roman
Citizens..... William Shakespeare The Recessional.................... Rudyard
Kipling The Cradle of Liberty.............. Daniel Webster The
Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Edmund Burke Bunker
Hill........................ Daniel Webster The Gettysburg Address.............
Abraham Lincoln VOCAL FLEXIBILITY Cæsar, the Fighter.................
_Henry W. Longfellow_ Official Duty...................... Theodore
Roosevelt Look Well to your Speech........... George Herbert Palmer
Hamlet to the Players.............. William Shakespeare Bellario's
Letter.................. William Shakespeare Casca, Speaking of
Cæsar........... William Shakespeare Squandering of the Voice...........
Henry Ward Beecher The Training of the Gentleman...... _William J.

Tucker_
MAKING THE POINT Brutus to the Roman Citizens....... William
Shakespeare The Precepts of Polonius........... William Shakespeare The
High Standard.................. Lord Rosebery On Taxing the
Colonies............. Edmund Burke Justifying the President........... _John
C. Spooner_ Britain and America................ John Bright VALUES
AND TRANSITIONS King Robert of Sicily.............. _Henry W.
Longfellow_ Laying the Atlantic Cable.......... _James T. Fields_
O'Connell, the Orator.............. Wendell Phillips Justification for
Impeachment...... Edmund Burke Wendell Phillips, the Orator.......
George William Curtis On the Disposal of Public Lands.... _Robert Y.
Hayne_ The Declaration of Independence.... Abraham Lincoln
EXPRESSING THE FEELING Northern Greeting to Southern
Veterans. ................................... Henry Cabot Lodge Matches and
Overmatches............ Daniel Webster The Coalition......................
Daniel Webster In His Own Defense................. Robert Emmet On
Resistance to Great Britain..... Patrick Henry Invective against Louis
Bonaparte.. Victor Hugo SHOWING THE PICTURE Mount, the Doge
of Venice!......... Mary Russell Mitford The Revenge........................
Alfred Lord Tennyson A Vision of War.................... _Robert G.
Ingersoll_ Sunset Near Jerusalem.............. Corwin Knapp Linson A
Return in Triumph................ _T. De Witt Talmage_ A Return in
Defeat................. _Henry W. Grady_
EXPRESSION BY ACTION In Our Forefathers'